It has begun!!! 1st Time

[Animals45]

Good luck on your hatching!!!!!!

 

[aart]

3 hours plugged in.

I have a feeling that you might not be cut out to incubate.
Chickens will teach you patience....or not....incubation even more so.

 

[RoosterML]

I have a feeling that you might not be cut out to incubate.
Chickens will teach you patience....or not....incubation even more so.

@aart I think you may mean well (or not) when you say that but I still find it is alittle harsh to be honest. Not really a judgement I personally would make on someone.
Main factor for getting going was not lack of patience but more so ageing shipped eggs. Incubator was plugged in for roughly 3 hours. Once incubator was stable for over an hour I didn't feel it necessary to continue. Keep in mind I had three temps gauges and two humidity gauges and kept a very close eye once eggs were added for the next several hours. Once incubator was back up to temp after adding eggs it never moved by more than .4°.
It's seems unit goes down to 99.2° heater kicks on and goes up to 99.6° repeat, repeat, and repeat. Not sure what else I or you or anyone else would have done differently. I am pretty pleased with the results.
We shall see in 21 days how things turn out. I had a very difficult time finding the airsack on the shipped eggs 18 of them. My 9 eggs I am very confident with those.
Time will tell !!!

 

[aart]

@aart I think you may mean well

I did mean well.... ...was just ribbin' ya.

 

[RoosterML]

I did mean well.... ...was just ribbin' ya.

got ya. Alot is lost in "text"

 

[WVduckchick]

got ya. Alot is lost in "text"

So... how old were the eggs by the time you set them?
And you did calibrate your thermometer and hygrometers, right?

 

[RoosterML]

So... how old were the eggs by the time you set them?
And you did calibrate your thermometer and hygrometers, right?

I am going to say 8-9 days from laid to set for shipped eggs. My eggs were 4 days.
Yes did ice/bath to check temp gauges.
Salt test for humidity gauges.

 

[RoosterML]

Here is something I noticed with the IncuView. My house is roughly in the 69°-70° range sometimes hitting 72°.
I had the IncuView set for a room temp range of 70°-80°. I had a 1.2° temp offset to calibrate the unit temp gauge to read correctly. I changed setting to room temp of 65°-70°. Now my temp offset is down to .5° to calibrate unit gauge. Conclusion being if your having to set a high temp offset to have the unit gauge read correctly maybe you have the room temp set wrong. Anyone else experience this? Yes I am making minor adjustments with eggs in and also monitoring very closely.

 

[RoosterML]

Question for when it comes to candeling day (planning around day 8). I weighed all my eggs before setting. If I have a difficult time candeling the eggs but still lose roughly 4% weight does that mean the egg is still good?

 

[WVduckchick]

I am going to say 8-9 days from laid to set for shipped eggs. My eggs were 4 days.
Yes did ice/bath to check temp gauges.
Salt test for humidity gauges.

Sounds good!

Question for when it comes to candeling day (planning around day 8). I weighed all my eggs before setting. If I have a difficult time candeling the eggs but still lose roughly 4% weight does that mean the egg is still good?

Well, the weight loss is just to determine if the egg is losing the right amount of moisture. That can happen in a good egg or a bad egg. The air cells need to grow to the proper size so monitoring weight loss just helps us determine that they are on track. It tells nothing of the actual fetus inside.
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